New World Wide Web Exhibits

Web exhibits appear and relocate too rapidly to be covered properly here, so we list below only some examples to whet the appetite. These and more links (including relocated and updated links ) can be found at the AIP Center for History of Physics website, /history.

• An assemblage by the NASA History Office of documents, images, analyses, biographical information, and technical data on the International Geophysical Year, the Sputnik satellite of the Soviet Union, and the American Vanguard and Explorer programs, to encourage study on the 40th Anniversary of the Launching of Sputnik at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik.
• A survey of Laser History 1917-1996 at http://www.achilles.net/~jtalbot/history.
• A History of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory including interviews at http://www.llnl.gov/llnl/02about-llnl/history.html.
• A History of the American Astronomical Society at http://www.aas.org/~had/toc.html.
• Brief biographical information on Andrei Sakharov at http://www.wdn.com/asf/adsbio.html.

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